This is precisely why his "concerns" with Kalen DeBoer's team when they were at their peak performance after beating Georgia, now stand indubitably true. "I just think the question marks in the secondary,

Winning is hard. Just as the folks in Knoxville, where corn from a jar was swigged in abundance after a home OT win Saturday. Or the peeps in Athens, who were just peachy after outlasting the worst team in the SEC. And you better believe Lane Kiffin would trade Juice in for a mutt to get Ole Miss’ 2 bad losses back.

Vanderbilt (3-2, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) had lost all 60 games against AP top-five teams, according to SportRadar. The Commodores hadn’t beaten Alabama on the field in 40 years, but they snapped a 23-game skid making big play after big play to give coach Clark Lea his alma mater’s biggest win ever.

Former Alabama head coach Nick Saban offered an assessment of what he saw from the Crimson Tide in their 40-35 loss to Vanderbilt on Oct. 5. During

DeBoer took the Alabama job to be The Guy After The Guy, inviting the comparisons to the greatest college football coach of all time, and he was always going to be raked over the coals by fans whenever his first loss came. But his first loss wasn’t supposed to be this, a setback arguably worse than any loss Saban suffered with the Tide.

What made the win that much sweeter for Vandy fans was how the stadium’s jumbotron trolled Alabama coaching great Nick Saban after the upset. The Vanderbilt jumbotron played a clip from ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show where Saban issued a pretty direct diss to the atmosphere at Vandy’s FirstBank Stadium for opposing teams.

Nick Saban had a special message for Kirby Smart after Alabama beat Georgia, and it was surprisingly positive.

Nick Saban said on "The Pat McAfee Show" Friday he didn't call Kalen DeBoer after Alabama football's loss to Vanderbilt. Here's why.